Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Author's preface -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- 1. The Jews of New York City -- 2. The origins of family clubs -- 3. Membership and leadership -- 4. Resources and records -- 5. Social gatherings -- 6. Feuds and fissions -- 7. Why family clubs? An explanatory model -- 8. Family clubs and kinship theory -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Index